Reconstructed 19th century cochineal lake pigment drying on filter paper [Photo: Mark Clarke]


ATSR: Working Group on Art Technological Source Research

ATSR is a Working Group of The International Council of Museums - Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC).
See the official ICOM-CC website for ATSR:
http://www.icom-cc.org/21/working-groups/art-technological-source-research/

Forthcoming conference: Technology and Interpretation - Reflecting the artist's Process

Thursday 08 April 2010, Vienna.

http://www.icom-cc.org/51/news/?id=92

The background to ATSR

Objectives

The primary aim of the ATSR Working Group is to establish a focus for historical documentary source research and reconstructions on art materials and techniques. The idea is to have a group of specialists in this area who work closely with all relevant research projects.

Documentary source research is often an essential component of conservation research, or art historical research. Reconstructions, a natural follow-on from the collection of information on materials and their use, can form an invaluable tool. The main objective of the ATSR working group is to encourage research into art technological sources on a professional basis.

Further objectives include:

- to be a platform for the exchange and dissemination of information on the subject
- to systematize the tools and techniques for this type of research
- to know better the players and stakeholders in this field
- to cooperate in multidisciplinary projects
- to extend our international contacts
- to find feedback for our research
- to develop better possibilities for publishing research results
- to develop possibilities for research outside of the affiliated institutes
- to attract interns and visiting researchers to do research at the affiliated institutes
- to raise funding for related activities

Membership

     Full membership
ATSR is a Working Group of The International Council of Museums - Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC). As such, ICOM requires that full membership of the ATSR Working Group be available only to members of ICOM. ATSR would encourage any individual or institution that is interested and eligible to consider taking out ICOM membership.

      [How to join ICOM] and the [Benefits of ICOM membership]

     Non-member 'Friends' of ATSR
Nevertheless both the ATSR group and ICOM-CC value non-members and welcomes them in all events (interim meetings and triennial conferences). Consequently individuals, organisations, and institutions that are not members of ICOM are welcome to attend ATSR meetings, and may request to be added to the mailing list : being such a 'friend' of ATSR is free of charge.

Requests for membership, to be added to the ATSR mailing list (either as ICOM member or as an 'interested friend'), or simply for further information, email atsr@clericus.org.

ATSR Publications
Art of the Past - Sources and Reconstructions London: Archetype 2005. ISBN: 1904982018
[Details]		 Art Technology : Sources and Methods London: Archetype 2008. ISBN: 9781904982296
[Details]		 Sources and Serendipity: Testimonies of Artist's Practice (Postprints from the 2008 ATSR Glasgow conference.) Forthcoming, Archetype, 2009.
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The History of ATSR

The Art Technological Source Research working group (ATSR) was conceived of by Ad Stijnman (then of the Instituut Collectie Nederland in Amsterdam [ICN]) and inaugurated at a meeting at the ICN on 20 March 2002. The ATSR held three international symposiums (Amsterdam 2004, Madrid 2006 and Glasgow 2008), with another forthcoming. It has now been accorded Working Group status by the International Council of Museums Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC).

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